Sataselect Options; Formatting And Verifying Disk Drives - Adaptec RAID 1220SA Installation And User Manual

SATASelect Options

The following table lists the available and default settings for each SATASelect option and the
description of each option. The default settings are appropriate for most systems and appear in
bold type in the table. Adaptec recommends that you do not change the settings.
SATASelect Options
Controller Configuration
Runtime BIOS
BBS Support
Physical Drives Display
during Post
SATA Configuration
Write Cache
DMA (1420SA only)
Device Security Lock
(1430SA & 1220SA
Only)
SMART
Allow Read Ahead

Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives

You can use the disk utilities to low-level format or verify your disk drives. (New disk drives
are low-level formatted at the factory and do not need to be low-level formatted again.).
Caution:
Before you format a disk drive, back up all data. Formatting destroys all data on a
!
disk drive.
Available Settings Description
Enabled Controls the state of the BIOS at POST time. When
Disabled
Enabled, the
Disabled:Scan bus
the controller to act as a bootable device.
Disabling the BIOS allows another suitable
HostRAID
Device When BBS support is set to Device base, the
Controller system's BIOS will list each connected bootable
device to the
individual entry. When BBS support is set to
Controller base, the system's BIOS will only list
HostRAID
the
order. This is useful in a multi-
controller configuration.
Enabled When Enabled, connected physical devices are
Disabled displayed during system POST. Displaying the
devices adds a few seconds to the overall POST
time.
Enabled Enables or disables write cache on the on legacy
and non-configured drives. Write cache enabled
Disabled
provides maximum performance. Default is Yes to
enable.
Enabled Enables or disables the use of Direct Memory
Access (DMA) mode for the drive. Enabled
Disabled
provides maximum performance. Default is Yes to
enable.
Enabled Enables or disables the device security lock
option. When enabling this option, a Security
Disabled
Freeze Lock command is issued to the device.
Enabled Enables or disables the predictive failure feature
of the disk drive. When enabled the SMART status
Disabled
of the drive (Healthy or Failed) will be displayed
along with the physical drive display during POST.
If the drive does not support SMART, the SMART
status is not displayed. Default is Yes to enable.
Enabled Enables or disables the read ahead cache
algorithm on the drive. Enabled provides
Disabled
maximum performance under most
circumstances. Default is Yes to enable.
Appendix C: Using the ARC Utility
HostRAID
controller BIOS allows
controller to act as the boot device.
HostRAID
controller as an
controller in the system boot
HostRAID
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